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OpenFX, which is building a near-instant payments and settlement network for cross-border transactions, emerges from stealth with $23M in funding led by Accel (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

OpenFX, which is building a near-instant payments and s...

May 25, 2025 0

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: OpenFX, which is building a near-instant payments and ...

Paris-based Veesion, which offers AI-powered video surveillance software for spotting suspicious behavior in stores, raised a €38M Series B led by White Star (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)

Paris-based Veesion, which offers AI-powered video surv...

May 25, 2025 0

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Paris-based Veesion, which offers AI-powere...

CX2, a defense tech startup building software and hardware, including autonomous drones, for electronic warfare, raised a $31M Series A led by Point72 Ventures (Colin Demarest/Axios)

CX2, a defense tech startup building software and hardw...

May 25, 2025 0

Colin Demarest / Axios: CX2, a defense tech startup building software and hard...

General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, launches with $32M in funding led by Matrix (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care...

May 25, 2025 0

Jason Del Rey / Fortune: General Medicine, an online storefront for medical ca...

Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acqu...

May 25, 2025 0

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering...

A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation by analyzing the code using OpenAI's o3 API (Sean Heelan/Sean Heelan's Blog)

A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-...

May 25, 2025 0

Sean Heelan / Sean Heelan's Blog: A security researcher details how he discover...

A look at updates that weren't in the Google I/O keynote, including a Nearby Passes notification in Wallet and the Play Store's Ask Someone Else to Pay button (Emma Roth/The Verge)

A look at updates that weren't in the Google I/O keynot...

May 25, 2025 0

Emma Roth / The Verge: A look at updates that weren't in the Google I/O keynot...

Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India (Mohit Pandey/Analytics India Magazine)

Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarv...

May 25, 2025 0

Mohit Pandey / Analytics India Magazine: Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Ind...

Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts...

May 25, 2025 0

Will Oremus / Washington Post: Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raise...

Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dialogue not included in the prompt (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating...

May 25, 2025 0

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are gene...

Elon Musk says he needs to be "super focused on X/xAI and Tesla", saying major operational improvements need to be made "as evidenced by the X uptime issues" (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)

Elon Musk says he needs to be "super focused on X/xAI a...

May 25, 2025 0

Valentine Baldassari / Bloomberg: Elon Musk says he needs to be “super focused...

Crypto investor John Woeltz from Kentucky was charged in NYC for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist for three weeks to gain crypto passwords (New York Times)

Crypto investor John Woeltz from Kentucky was charged i...

May 25, 2025 0

New York Times: Crypto investor John Woeltz from Kentucky was charged in NYC f...

Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's accessibility advancements, which gained momentum in 2020, have slowed down due to cutbacks (Geoffrey Bunting/The Verge)

Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's...

May 25, 2025 0

Geoffrey Bunting / The Verge: Accessibility consultants say the video game ind...

Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions (Adam Edelman/NBC News)

Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on soci...

May 25, 2025 0

Adam Edelman / NBC News: Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on so...

Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's post-Jobs design missteps (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like e...

May 25, 2025 0

Jason Snell / Six Colors: Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels lik...

Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local services business, introduces a ride-hailing feature on the app's English version, targeting foreign visitors in China (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local services business, in...

May 25, 2025 0

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local servic...

Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams review, draft, research, and advise, raised an $80M Series B at a $675M valuation led by ICONIQ and General Catalyst (Evan Ochsner/Bloomberg Law)

Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams review, draft, ...

May 25, 2025 0

Evan Ochsner / Bloomberg Law: Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams review, ...

A look at the rise of "sovereign AI", wherein countries invest directly in chip companies like Nvidia and AMD, making AI chips a highly politicized business (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the rise of "sovereign AI", wherein countries...

May 24, 2025 0

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: A look at the rise of “sovereign AI”, whe...

Metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claims a $15B+ valuation, told shareholders it is rebranding as Napster, an "AI-powered digital experiences" provider (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

Metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claims a $15B...

May 24, 2025 0

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: Metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claims a $15B+ ...

X experienced a significant outage globally on Saturday morning, after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday (Wes Davis/The Verge)

X experienced a significant outage globally on Saturday...

May 24, 2025 0

Wes Davis / The Verge: X experienced a significant outage globally on Saturday...

The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail in partnership with Shein, has struggled to gain traction after launching in February (Rest of World)

The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani's Relian...

May 24, 2025 0

Rest of World: The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retai...

Japanese carrier Docomo is discontinuing its emoji set, which was last updated in 2013 and became one of the most influential in history after its debut in 1999 (Keith Broni/Emojipedia)

Japanese carrier Docomo is discontinuing its emoji set,...

May 24, 2025 0

Keith Broni / Emojipedia: Japanese carrier Docomo is discontinuing its emoji s...

A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders (Abram Brown/The Information)

A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a da...

May 24, 2025 0

Abram Brown / The Information: A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Netwo...

Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip priced between $6,500 and $8,000, well below the $10,000-$12,000 the H20 sold for, after US export curbs (Reuters)

Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip priced be...

May 24, 2025 0

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip priced between $6,500 a...

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